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What is his plan. the complicating factor in all this is, of course, the jewish holiday, rosh hashanah that happens wednesday evening, so the lawmakers are not only going to get this done for disaster relief but try to fund our government. jenna: is anyone in the house now, in the house of representatives, or are they on recess, so if anything gets passed in the senate, is anyone there to take it up? >> they went home. we heard from steny hoyer, the whip in the house, he changed title, they essentially believe they can do this with unanimous consent if indeed something gets done with the unite...

also mitt romney's preemptive strike on jobs, the republican unveils his plan days before the president's big speech. this hour political leaders zeroizer zeroing in on issue number one. do any have a plan that will really work? and texas wildfires destroying more than 700 homes in 48 hours. a massive blaze growing closer to the state's capital is growing bigger and more destructive every minute. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." i've covered dick cheney for many years as a defense secretary and certainly as vice president of the united states. today i found him t...

and 13.9 million people are still out of work. we just can't seem to catch a break. don pack is features editor for "the atlantic" and wrote "can the middle class be saved?" don, what's the answer, can it? >> the middle class can be saved but we need to take a wide array of aggressive action to save it, i think. it's interesting the middle class itself has in many ways been downgraded in this recession. the housing bubble amassed a host of problems. the middle class has been slowly hallowing for years, wages in the middle class were stagnant throughout the odds. but the middle class ...

Something about social security, medicare, medicaid and what we call mandatory ing in the budget. that's what the boehner approach does that is what is missing from the reid approach. -- >> greta: if senator reid were here he would say it be hoof you to join him. those are not -- those are insignificant matters like entitlement differences. budget cap, budget amendment that's not an insignificant difference ear. these are not like small problems -- difference either. these are not -- this is ideology. >> i think what you have to agree, the democrats would agree to this too. you can really solv...

murdoch's protege rebekah brooks to show up tomorrow to answer questions. despite her arrest over the weekend, her spokesman says she will be there. she's denying she knew her reporters hacked phones for scoops while she was the newspaper's editor. rupert murdoch, chairman of news corp, and his son james are expected to testify alongside brooks tomorrow. they will appear before parliament's media committee. a heatwave hitting the middle of u.s. extremely high humidity makes it feel as hot as 117 degrees in some places. that heat is creeping east. >> brutal. i probably lost 10 pound...